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Originally Posted by rob love
Regarding Robertson (square drive) screws in Canadian service or Canadian Automotive, I can think of very few examples of either. I have seen screws on some of the Bren chests that were a combination of Robertson and slot drive. Most of my run-ins with Robertson are with various crates or locally produced wooden items.
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And this is the sort of rivet counting conversation that makes our hobby interesting? Now the question is not just how many screws but pitch, thread, length and head.
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FWIW, in Kandahar I was in a 4-eyes intelligence office lodged in a plywood hut. The commander was a US Navy three-ringer intelligence officer who had many interesting stories. I was asking about the building and we got talking about which of the US services gets things done in various circumstances. I commented that the electrical panel had been installed by Canadians. Huh? How on earth could I know that? See, Robertson heads on all the hardware.
(In his eyes every Canadian soldier had been something else before he met them, and scratch one and you'd find a former paratrooper in a Navy uniform doing imagery analysis, or university educated former clerks doing maps, or Cpls who were serious tech geeks.)